Inferno | Feodor Chaliapin Jr., Eleonora Giorgi | ever seen a window kill a person?

Inferno | Feodor Chaliapin Jr., Eleonora Giorgi | A TRUE horror film by one of the masters

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Inferno

	Inferno Feodor Chaliapin Jr., Eleonora Giorgi Blue Underground, 2007 average customer review:based on 89 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

ever seen a window kill a person?

this is a very weird little video nasty thats a sequal to suspiria it has beautiful colors but its a little random its still enjoyable the soundtracks unbelievable

A TRUE horror film by one of the masters

In an age where garbage like the SAW movies and endless remakes of horror classics (The Hills Have Eyes, Amityville Horror, etc.) clutter up theaters, it's nice to be able to revisit the visionary horrors of Dario Argento. Sure, Inferno is slow-paced by today's standards...and it's all the more terrifying for it. Like a master painter, Argento takes time to compose each scene for maximum visual impact. Each time I watch Inferno, I get drawn in again.

Like his masterpiece, Suspiria, Inferno isn't terribly well-acted or even conventially plotted. But again, it's about the visual experience, the in-your-face horror. Do your nightmares make sense? More often than not, they don't. And that's what the best of Argento's films do: they approximate living nightmares. Even the music--at times discordant and jarring--adds to the unsettling feeling that Something Is Not Right Here.

It's safe to say if you're a fan of those recent movies I listed at the start of this review, you probably won't care much for Inferno. But if you have a little patience and willingness to go along for the ride...you may just have a few nightmares after spending a couple of hours in the world of Dario Argento.

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Argento's forgotten film...

This is one Argento film that you have to see several times. When I got into Argento, this film was almost impossible to find (especially in its uncut version), and even when the DVD came out, I couldn't find it anywhere for rent. So I bought it, and I've watched it twice. The 2nd time, it really hits you. It's a completely surreal, image driven film. If you try to make sense of it, it won't work. The imagery is everything, and it's outstanding. There's not one frivolous frame in the entire film. It's fantastic to look at. It's not Argento's best work, but it is certainly one of his most fascinating films. The soundtrack by Keith Emerson works very well too (I'm a massive ELP fan). The performances are adequate, but that's not really important here. It's a shame Argento hasn't made a decent film since 1987. He really has some talent....

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colour

Inferno is a kind of eye candy. The colour create a special tone for this imagination story.

Visual Alchemy

In the wake of "Suspiria", where Dario Argento fully committed to the visual and aesthetic possibilities of the horror genre, narrative took a back seat. Gone were the days of the tightly plotted whodunits such as "Bird with the Crystal Plumage" and "Deep Red". "Inferno" is symptomatic of a cinematic approach in which narrative is subservient to and in service to increasingly grand visual set pieces. "Inferno" more so than any horror film marked the eventual path the genre would take in the 1980's. "Inferno" isn't however devoid of narrative, but making sense of it is not the paramount concern of the spectator. The theme of alchemy acts as an effective metaphor for the film as whole, as Argento throws in tried and tested ingredients to create something that is startlingly dark and baroque. "Inferno's" narrative problems however are not it's undoing, it's as if Argento realises by the very nature of the genre that his major concern is the realisation of another world; in this case a gloomy and gothic netherworld in which the forces of evil are much closer than one expects. Full of spectacular and senseless violence "Inferno" reconstitutes the gothic form (made quaint and redundant by Hammer) and gives it a unique Italian sensibility.

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